Operations Associate – Founding Team Member

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Pear VC
Austin, TX, CALIFORNIA, United States (Remote)
  • Environmental
  • FullTime
  • Applications have closed

About the Role

We’re looking for an Operations Associate to join the founding team at ++Known++ and help execute the most exciting consumer launch of 2025. You’ll work closely with our Head of Operations – driving GTM strategy, accelerating partnerships, enabling recruiting, and keeping our internal engine running smoothly.

This is a rare chance to get in early at a well-funded startup ($10M seed from one of the top consumer VCs in SF), build an entirely new category in AI-powered dating, and take on real ownership from day one. You’ll move fast, learn fast, and help shape how Known enters the world.

What You’ll Do

  • Support GTM Strategy – coordinate launch plans, timelines, and cross-functional execution

  • Drive Partnerships – source, contact, and manage relationships with venues, creators, and brand partners

  • Coordinate Marketing Efforts – organize campaigns, events, and content operations with the growth team

  • Recruiting Support – help build pipelines, coordinate candidate experience, and keep hiring on track

  • Financial Ops – expense management, payment tracking, and helping maintain a healthy financial pulse

  • Work Directly With Founders – be a key part of daily decisions across product, growth, and operations

  • Operational Excellence – build processes that make us faster, smarter, and always improving

Who You Are

  • ~1 year of experience in consulting, investment banking, or a high-performance environment

  • A highly organized operator – you make chaos feel like clarity

  • Strong communicator (written and verbal)

  • Comfortable owning ambiguous problems and turning them into action

  • Scrappy, resourceful, and energized by doing whatever it takes to make us win

  • Excited about startups, tech, and redefining how people meet

  • Based in San Francisco – or ready to be here

Why Known

  • Massive opportunity – the future of dating needs a new model

  • Real ownership – equity in a company built to scale

  • High-trust, high-autonomy environment

  • Access & impact – work alongside founders daily and see your work go live fast

  • Backed by the best – $10M seed from top consumer VC in SF

  • Build a category-defining product that helps people connect offline, in the real world

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